Hacker News Reader

You might be interested to know they're even cheaper when purchased through a reseller, e.g.: http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/geotrust-ssl-certi...

I suppose they think that since you're visiting their site directly, you wouldn't think (or know) to visit one of their reseller partners instead.

View on HN

Most vendors who have channel partners don't want to compete with them, but they don't want to leave sales on the table, either. For bigger ticket items, the company generally sends you directly to a channel partners; for smaller ticket items, the company will often sell the item at "list" price and let the channel partners discount off of list.

Pretty standard operating procedure here and highly unlikely to be a comment on their customer's web savvy. :)

Reply on news.ycombinator.com